Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places: : wherein their construction and manner of operation is particularly explained; their advantages above every other method of warming rooms demonstrated; and all objections that have been raised against the use of them, answered and obviated. : With directions for putting them up, and for using them to the best advantage. : And a copper-plate, in which the several parts of the machine are exactly laid down, from a scale of equal parts.

Accession number
PML 64766
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Published
Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin., 1744.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Henry S. Morgan in honor of the fiftieth anniversary, 1974.
Notes
Errata statement and advertisement for merchants selling the fireplace, verso of title page.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin by Miller.
Error in imposition: inner forme of gathering C has pp. 18-19 and 22-23 in incorrect order.
Illustrations drawn by Lewis Evans and engraved in Boston, probably by James Turner. (Cf. Miller).
Description
[2], 37, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription on cover from Benjamin Franklin's brother John Franklin to Theophilus Pickering, Feb. 22, 1744/5.
Provenance
John Franklin; Theophilus Pickering.
Binding
Stitched pamphlet; in cloth box.
Classification
Department